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matiasm

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From: Misiones-Arg

Registered: 2010-08-01

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Gnome on Wayland problem with drag and drop

Hi, I can´t drag and drop from Files to Firefox or Chromium when using Gnome on Wayland.
I've found this topics:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=265129
On this one the solution is changing to X11.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/974
And here it seems to have been solved in Gnome 3.34.4.

I'm using Gnome 40.4.0 on a up to date Arch. Let me know if there's more info that can help
Thanks for any hints

matiasm

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From: Misiones-Arg

Registered: 2010-08-01

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Re: Gnome on Wayland problem with drag and drop

I've just tried dragging and droping from one Files window to another Files window and it crashed.
I see this in journalctl:

sep 17 19:38:15 psyd2-mob gnome-shell[4614]: WL: error in client communication (pid 59727)
sep 17 19:38:15 psyd2-mob nautilus[59727]: Error reading events from display: Invalid argument

Second crash:
sep 17 19:39:05 psyd2-mob gnome-shell[4614]: WL: error in client communication (pid 59791)
sep 17 19:39:05 psyd2-mob nautilus[59791]: Error flushing display: Broken pipe

Last edited by matiasm (2021-09-17 22:45:16)

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From: Catalunya

Registered: 2020-07-31

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Re: Gnome on Wayland problem with drag and drop

Are you using Firefox on Wayland or XWayland? Same for Chromium.
Also, do you have xdg-desktop-portal{,-gtk} installed and running?

matiasm

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From: Misiones-Arg

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Re: Gnome on Wayland problem with drag and drop

I'm back on X11 because of job priorities
I'll do some testing with yours pointers soon.
Thanks!!

matiasm

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From: Misiones-Arg

Registered: 2010-08-01

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Re: Gnome on Wayland problem with drag and drop

Are you using Firefox on Wayland or XWayland? Same for Chromium.

You're right! I wasn't aware that both FF and Chromium were runnning on xwayland.
I found how to do it in Arch here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/chromi … nd_support
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Firefox#Wayland

Thanks a lot!

matiasm

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From: Misiones-Arg

Registered: 2010-08-01

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Re: Gnome on Wayland problem with drag and drop

I've just tried dragging and droping from one Files window to another Files window and it crashed

I'm still seeing this issue but I can live with it